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Annual Holiday Event

1995-01-03 16:29:29
Subject: Annual Holiday Event
From: Martha McConaghy <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 16:29:29 EST
Well, this past weekend, our annual holiday event occured, we had a
head-crash.  For some, unknown reason, Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year's
is the season when our DASD bite the dust.  No one can explain this
phenom, but more than one IBM CE has spent his/her holiday with us.  (They
have to draw straws now to see who will answer our call.)  Maybe I should
call the producers of the "X Files"...%-)

In any case, one of the disks trashed was the mirror disk for the database
catalog (301).  The primary disk is OK and none of the other volumes were
affected.  My question is, what is the best way to recover it?  Can I just
DDR (I'm running a VM/ESA server) copy the main disk to the mirror or will
this cause painful consequences?  Is there some other way of getting this
disk?  Right now the server gives the following errors:

ANR5014E Unable to open disk 0301 - error 113 received from DISKID
ANR9999D LVMINIT(802): Unable to add disk '0301' to disk table.
ANR9999D LVMINIT(508): Unable to read a valid set of LVM Data Tables from
any defined disk

Then the server terminates.  As a last resort, I can restore the entire
server, including the data.  However, several people will lose important
backups if I do, which is far from desirable.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Martha
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